VIDEO — Lawyer thrown out from court by three police over judge’s order
A new low has been witnessed in effusive Turkish judiciary after a video has been started to circulate in social media venues. According to...
A police officer who guards Turkish Parliament committs suicide after dismissal
A police officer working at Turkish Parliament as a security officer committed suicide using his service pistol late on Wednesday in Ankara, shortly after finding...
Turkish police search abducted man’s house in Ankara
Police teams searched the house of Turgut Çapan, a former employee of Turgut Özal University who mysteriously went missing in Turkey’s capital of Ankara...
Head of top court in Turkey confirms they don’t have authority to review statutory...
Turkey's Constitutional Court (AYM) President Zühtü Arslan stated that as the top court of the country they don’t have the authority to review the...
Turkey’s Erdoğan regime extends post-coup witch hunt targeting Gülen followers abroad
Turkey, under the autocratic rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has stepped up its witch hunt against the alleged members of Gülen movement abroad,...
CHP deputy asks about 7 abducted purge victims in parliamentary question
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has submitted a parliamentary question to the Parliament Speaker’s Office in which he...
Wife: Jailed former prosecutor, heavy cancer patient, needs urgent health care
The wife of a former prosecutor, İbrahim Ethem Kuriş, who has been kept in prison for 9 months over alleged involvement into the coup attempt...
4-year-old visits her dad in jail wearing T-shirt with her newborn brother’s picture
While millions of children were celebrating the National Sovereignty and Children’s Day on April 23 with joy, there were hundreds of children who were barred...
Woman looking after disabled children alone as prosecutor husband under arrest for 270 days
Hacer Çakmak is only one of the hundreds of thousands of people who found themselves facing tremendous difficulties after the government started a desperate...
Interior Ministry: 1,015 detained over alleged Gülen links in one week
A total of 1,015 people were detained in operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement over the past week, according to a statement from Turkey’s...
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The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today published its latest report, “The Forgotten Victims: Children of Turkey’s Post-Coup Purge,” which examines how children from...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report “Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review,” which highlights the most important developments...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report, “Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft,” a...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) today released its latest report "Human Rights in Turkey: 2023 in Review," which highlights the most important developments...
Hate speech and hate crimes against Syrian refugees in Turkey
This report focuses on the inflammatory rhetoric and illegal acts motivated by prejudice faced by refugees who fled the civil war in Syria to...
Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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